she joins us from los angeles. jane, thanks for joining us. you're a pal of ours. thanks for coming on since we're substituting today. as a policy person how do we see our role there like you? how do we help? can we find the good guys and can we help them win? >> it's getting tougher and tougher. my own view is we should have intervened with substantial aid a year ago but we are where we are. i think it becomes more urgent now. this alleged use of chemical weapons today seems to me very credible. only the government has the ability to weaponize these chemicals so let's assume that they did it. syria has the third largest cache of weapons other than the u.s. and russia and has used them on their people before. we need urgent focus here. i agree with richard engel now, that this is the top problem today. the release of mubarak is also fascinating because the irony is that the military pushed him over two and a half years ago and then morsi pushed over the top level -- remaining level of the military and appointed al-sisi who is in charge and who i'm betting is fairly